Nancy Mace accuses AG that she can face in the Republican party not to prosecute men who, according to her, violated her

Representative Nancy Mace, from South Carolina, on Monday she used a speech of almost an hour on the floor of the United States house to accuse her former fiance of abusing her physically, registering sexual acts with her and others without her consent and conspire with commercial partners in acts of violation and inappropriate sexual behavior.

Mace said he was talking because the main prosecutor of his native state did not take measures even after alerting the investigators. It is likely that the same prosecutor is Mace’s opponent if he is postulated to Governor of South Carolina in 2026, which he is considering.

When he was going to “burned land,” Mace detailed how, in November 2023, he says that “he accidentally discovered some of the most heinous crimes against imaginable women. We are talking about rape, non -consensual photos, non -consensual videos of women and minor girls, and the calculated and premeditated exploitation of women and girls in my district. “

Mace mentioned four men as involved, including the businessman of the Charleston area, Patrick Bryant, who was his fiance until 2023 and stayed from Puerta at the door for her during her 2022 re -election campaign.

The AP could not independently verify Mace’s claims. Bryant told AP: “I categorically deny these accusations. I take this matter seriously and I will cooperate fully with the legal processes necessary to eliminate my name. ”

Mace accused the Attorney General of the South Carolina, Alan Wilson, to slowly walk any investigation by Bryant and the other men after she brought the photos and video to the state authorities.

“Did the South Carolina Attorney General had any of these accused predators after receiving clear and dry evidence that include videos, photos and witnesses?” Mace asked, noting that his office had defended a line of advice for anyone with information about accusations.

In a statement after Mace’s speech, Wilson’s office called on his comments on the conduct of the prosecutor “categorically” and said that the office “has not received any report or request for assistance from any agency to apply the law or of processing on these matters “.

Mace, a former member of the South Carolina State Chamber, was the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, the State Military University, where her father served as a commander of the cadets. Serving briefly in the House of Representatives, in 2020 it became the first Republican woman chosen to represent South Carolina in Congress, turning the first district after a single mandate with a Democratic representative.

His decision to issue the accusations in a speech on the floor was unusual. In a statement, Mace emphasized that the statements of the members on the floor of the Chamber “are par excellence” legislative acts “and, therefore, protected by the clause” speech or debate “, which generally protects legislators from being demanded by what they say.

“This is not a story about extended ex -girlfriends or consensual sex tapes, there are many of them. I don’t care what two consent adults accept to do, ”said Mace. He mentioned a dozen invoices in which he had worked at home, on topics that range from voyeurism to prohibit transgender women to use women’s bathrooms in the United States Capitol or office buildings of the house.

In 2019, Mace spoke publicly for the first time about a sexual assault that, according to her, had occurred more than two decades earlier, addressing legislative colleagues in South Carolina to advocate for adding an exception of rape and incest to a prohibition of the house state of all abortions after the detection of a fetal beat.

On Monday, Mace said he joined the gallery of the Chamber for several women who, according to Bryant and the other men, had been victims of Bryant and the other men. Among the Republican legislators who sat down behind Mace during their speech to show their support were Lauren Boebert, R-Colo and Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.

“Nancy Mace is our friend and we wanted to support her and give her breath she needed to transmit that message,” said Bobert.

Mace, 47, won a third term of the House of Representatives in November and has said that he is seriously “considering a 2026 race for the governor of South Carolina. If she enters that race, she will probably face Wilson, in her fourth mandate and also the son of representative Joe Wilson, in the Republican primaries.

MACE has greatly supported President Donald Trump, working for his 2016 campaign, but raising criticism against him after the violence of January 6, 2021 at the United States Capitol, a criticism that stimulated Trump to support a Republican challenger in his 2022 career. MACE defeated that opponent, won the re -election and was backed by Trump in his 2024 campaign.

Mace rejected additional comments to journalists in the Capitol after speech. When asked how he felt now, he said: “I am at peace.”